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It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.
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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
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Peace is hard work and we must not allow people to forget it.
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We are not in politics to ignore peoples' worries, we are in politics to deal with them.
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You do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.
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Any attempts by any government to change Community legislation to its own wishes are doomed to failure following the extension of policy areas now subject to majority voting... In our opinion, this must have serious implications for the traditional view of Parliament as a legislative body sovereignty.
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There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
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A bully has no respect for a weakling and the way to stop a bully is not to be weak. The way to stop a bully from ever being a bully is to say: I'm as strong as you. Anything you do to me, I can do to you. We are going for nuclear and conventional disarmament but we're going about it in the right way.
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I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.
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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
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The woman's mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities.
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When government does its job properly people are free to do theirs.
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Hope is no basis for a defense policy.
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I calculate that I was responsible for proposing the elevation to the Lords of some 214 of its present numbers.
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Israel must never be expected to jeopardize her security: if she was ever foolish enough to do so, and then suffered for it, the backlash against both honest brokers and Palestinians would be immense - 'land for peace' must also bring peace.
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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
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And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism.
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Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.
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As the former dissident Vladimir Bukovsky once remarked – referring to the Russian proverb to the effect that you cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs – he had seen plenty of broken eggs, but never tasted any omelette.
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A quick cure is a quack cure.
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